SHOCKING NEWS: gay men exist in Korea, and they've made a documentary about it

[loverboy.livejournal.com]

Synopsis: Miracle on Jongno Street is a story about 4 gay men who try to lead a 'normal life'. Despite their weary lives, Eden in Jongno is a place where they make friends and find love, and in a way it could be referred to as their private ‘Garden of Eden’. The movie is a real life documentary about 5 men including the director himself, who meet and become friends in Eden.

In the middle of making a movie Jun-moon, a director, loses his self-confidence due to social scrutiny regarding his sexual orientation. Byung-gyon, a gay rights activist, has been participating in movements to establish equal rights for homosexuals. Young-soo, a chef who moved from the countryside 10 years ago, lived a lonely life but he finds happiness after joining a gay choir called G-Voice. Yol, who works for a major company, dreams of the day him and his partner, can have a legal wedding. These stories are no different from the lives of the ‘heterosexual majority’ and the relatively normal portrayal of these men is original and a significant achievement in the positive representation of homosexuals.

sources: hancinema, IndieFilmBot, official homepage

Comments

[claudiasharon.livejournal.com]

LOL@title of this post.

[zero82591.livejournal.com]

thank. god. LGBT attention in Korea is nonexistent.

[hyunaepark.livejournal.com]

this.

[sadistic-dance.livejournal.com]

Poor Lancel and that damn hat thingy.

[luckycigarette.livejournal.com]

That is so fucking awesome. And I'm glad it looks like a gay movie that's not centered around two hot models making out/having hot hot sex/showing lots of naked bodies!

[violoncelliste.livejournal.com]

this

[xshinebrighterx.livejournal.com]

it's gonna be labeled as science fiction

[gigiettu.livejournal.com]

LOL

[asuran-rocks.livejournal.com]

looking forward to this~~

Re: questions

[myrobotvoice.livejournal.com]

...really?

[noir-shiroi.livejournal.com]

Two thumbs up!

[czarny.livejournal.com]

You're cute, anon.

[hyunaepark.livejournal.com]

Title made me LOL.<33
I need to see this documentary :D

[shiz-lestat.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to watch this!

[jela-ow.livejournal.com]

things like this always make me cry arggh. brb crying my eyes out. so happy that it's finally getting some attention in Korea!

[chikage-chan.livejournal.com]

i really hope someone makes subtitles for it when it comes out! ^.^

[loverboy.livejournal.com]

A lot of Korean movies have eng subs on the DVD, so there's a good chance of subs when the movie is out.

[laurent.livejournal.com]

i want to see it.

[spread.livejournal.com]

That picture is fab!!
It's like the Korean Sex in The City~

[belovedseason.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who thought of that.

[cookiedealer.livejournal.com]

the cute little bowties already make me want to watch it.

[tamirisns.livejournal.com]

crying tears of rainbows! <3

[chewmi.livejournal.com]

awww <3 :)

[loverboy.livejournal.com]

Aww your icon. I nearly sat through the second half of that drama for him.

[fayoochun.livejournal.com]

well 2 years ago, I asked my Korean classmate if there's "gays" in SKorea and he said, "they are hard to find". lol

[kellygreen.livejournal.com]

Haha they aren't hard to find if you know where to look....it's just that many average Koreans seem to be completely clueless about it. My best friend here is gay and he came out to a few of his Korean girlfriends the other day and they were completely flabbergasted. Two of them didn't believe him. It took me, a foreigner, confirming that yes, he is indeed gay, for them to even begin to accept it as a fact. They were really cool about it, though, so that was awesome.

[valieleen.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see this! I hope it gets a lot of positive attention in SK.

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

I HAVE to see this and I seriously hope people like Super Junior's Siwon watches it and stops acting like a homophob and act like gay people don't exist in Korea! (why I like him is still a total mystery to me)

[mochandesu.livejournal.com]

I seriously hope people like Super Junior's Siwon watches it and stops acting like a homophob and act like gay people don't exist in Korea! (why I like him is still a total mystery to me)
---I'll never forget that one interview from (seemingly) forever ago where he said he refuses to acknowledge homosexuality. I was disappointed in him :(


But maybe, this will make enough head way for gays in the eyes of society that Zhou Mi will be comfortable with coming out. Sometimes it feels like he's going to show up one day and announce his flaming sexuality to the world

[sweetemerald513.livejournal.com]

Wow this looks really interesting. I would love to watch it.

[nene718.livejournal.com]

Pretty much every time I see gays portrayed in Asian dramas, they're overly-exaggerated caricatures of gay men. So I think this is good that they're putting a realistic portrayal out there.

[loverboy.livejournal.com]

Which dramas have gay men? The few I can think of, the men weren't caricatures and were actually handled fairly well.

[czarny.livejournal.com]

Omg the title of this post made me burst out laughing, ILY FUCSHIA HAHAHA.

[lobotronic.livejournal.com]

FUCK YEAH!

[hitsujiga.livejournal.com]

i hope this movie gets a bit of exposure. and i wish for a positive response from audiences :D

[allisnotlost.livejournal.com]

+1